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A bus strike planned to take place in Sheffield on Remembrance Sunday has been called off by Unite, the union which represents the bus drivers at First South Yorkshire. Unite had planned a weekend of action in a dispute over disciplinary issues at First South Yorkshire's Olive Grove depot in Sheffield.

First said an "outbreak of public anger" to plans for a strike on Remembrance Sunday led to unions calling off industrial action. Strikes planned for Saturday 7th November and Sunday 15th November are still scheduled to go ahead, First South Yorkshire said.

A new date of industrial action has also been announced, this time being on Thursday November 12th.

The dispute centres on disciplinary issues at the companies Olive Grove bus depot. The Unite union said the issues included grievances over the way the company handled workers who had taken sickness leave and First's "attitude to disciplinary action."

The planned strikes by Olive Grove will mean that all services within Sheffield and parts of Rotherham that are currently served by Olive Grove services will not run on the 3 days listed above. Services within Sheffield which are operated out of the Midland Road depot in Rotherham will be unaffected by this strike, and for clarification, Midland Road depot operate the following services within Sheffield

Line	Destination
5	Rotherham to Meadowhall via Holmes and Kimberworth
17	Sheffield to Meadowhall via Fox Hill and Parson Cross
21	Sheffield to Harthill / Spinkhill via Mosborough and Killamarsh
25	Rotherham to Killamarsh via Rotherham Hospital and Aston
27	Waterthorpe to Rotherham via Aston and Rotherham Hospital
28	Meadowhall to Killamarsh via Woodhouse and Waterthorpe
32	Rotherham to Sheffield via Brinsworth and Manor Top
33	Rotherham to Waterthorpe via Brinsworth and Aston
43A	Rotherham to Meadowhall via Kimberworth Park
66	Rotherham to Sheffield via Chapeltown and High Green
69	Rotherham to Sheffield via Tinsley and Attercliffe
206	Dinnington to Sheffield via Aston and Darnall
X4/X5/X6	Sheffield to Dinnington via Handsworth and Swallownest
X78	Doncaster to Sheffield via Rotherham and Meadowhall

There are however some exceptions to the above list, though passengers wishing to travel on the 3 days listed above, using First South Yorkshire services in Sheffield are instructed to get in contact directly with First South Yorkshire for the fine details.

Line 30 - Some peak time services are still operated by Midland Road.
Lines X14/X15 - Some peak time services are now operated by Midland Road.

Lines X4 & X5 do have some peak time services that are now operated by Olive Grove, though during these disputes, staff from Midland Road will cover all of these journeys, meaning that services X4 & X5 will operate as normal, during the industrial action in Sheffield.

If you have purchased First Weekly or Monthly tickets which are valid for any of the above dates you will be entitled to free First Day tickets to compensate for the loss of travel on these dates. To claim yours please send in your expired ticket to the address below.

FREEPOST RSEB-JTLE-SXGL
First SY Strikes
Midland Road
Rotherham
S61 1TF

For further details please visit www.travelsouthyorkshire.com or www.firstmainline.co.uk

Thanks,
Staff at South Yorkshire Transport